Hose supporter



1. LEONARD. nose SUPPORTER. APPLICATION HLE D SEPT. 8, i918.

1 427 9 0 Patented Sept. 5, 1922.

Inventor, Jo seph Leonar d,

Patented ept. 5, 1922,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH LEONARD, OF NEW YORK, 1\T{Y., ASSIGNOR TO FIFTH AVENUE CORSETCOMPANY, IN (3., OF ALLEN TOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORIORATION OF NEW YORK.

HOSE SUPPORTER.

Application filed September 18, 1918. Serial No. 254,538.

T0 all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JosErH LEONARD, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of the borough of the Bronx, city of New York,county of the Bronx, and State of New York, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Hose Supporters, of which the following is aspecifica tion.

This invention has been designed particularly for supporting hose fromcorsets, but is applicable in connection with garments generallyirrespective of the source of support or the garment which is sup orted.One object is to provide a substitute or elastic webbing, the elasticelement of which is rubber, scarcity of which makes it increasinglydiflicult to obtain. Another object is to provide an elastic elementwhich will not deteriorate through the influence of the warmth andmoisture of the body and continued strain, or more rapidly than thecorset or other parts with which it is associated.

In the accompanying sheet or drawings which forms a part of thisapplication Figure l is a perspective of a corset hose supporter whichembodies this invention,

Fig. 2 is a top view of the elastic element,

Fig. 3 is a section through the elastic element on the line Ill-ill ofFig. 2, and

Fig. 1- is a section through the elastic element on the line IV-IV ofFig. 3.

A means of attachment 5 to the hose or other supported garment of anysuitable form has a pulley 6 connected therewith which may be in theform of a roller which turns on the wire frame of the attaching device.The elastic element comprises two helical compression springs 7, 7 whichare enclosed in slotted spring-barrels 8, 8. A first crossbar 9 hasenlarged ends which project through the slots into the barrels and bearon the upper ends of each of the springs. A second crossbar 10 connectsth upper ends of the spring barrels, and the barrels, the lower ends ofwhich are closed, serve as abutments for the lower ends of each of thesprings. A bar 11 may connect the lower ends of the barrels, if desired,to better hold them in place, but this is not essential. A supportingtape LZ'hangs from the lower edge of a corset 18, but it is notessential that it should be supported from the body in this manner. Thetape is branched. One branch 14: leads down behind the metal springbarrels, thereby keeplng them from touching the wearer, and thence thebranch is led around the pulley and up to the first crossbar to whichthe end is attached. The other branch 15 has its end attached to thesecond crossbar.

By reason of the pulley action the strains on the branches attached tothe elastic element are half of the strain on the hose supporter, andone-fourth on each. of the two springs, so that the springs and theircasings may be light and of much smaller diam eter than it has beennecessary to show them on account of the requirements of clearillustration. The connecting bars are preferably narrower than thediameters of the spring barrels so that the elastic element'will have adistributed bearing against the branch of the tape behind it, which willmore or less concave in conforming to the leg of the wearer. I

The foregoing detailed description has been given for clearness ofunderstanding and no undue limitation should be deduced therefrom butthe. appended claim should be construed as broadly as permissible inview of the prior art.

What I claim, is

In a. garment-supporter, the combination with an elastic elementincluding a pair of cross bars arranged adjacent one end of the elasticelement, and means resiliently urging the cross bars into close relationto each other, of a supporting tape having one end returned andconnected to one of the cross bars, the elastic element'being positionedbe tween the returned portion and the body portion of the tape, a branchcarried by the tape beyond the returned portion and attached to theother cross bar, and a means of attachment to a garment supported in thebight of the returned tape portion.

Signed at New YorlnN. Y., this 17th day of September, 1918.

JOSEPH LEONARD.

